Earlier this month, I sustained a hairline fracture of my left hip… That’s the bad news. The worse news is that medications have impaired my ability to write. Because there is curiosity about my list, I present this very abbreviated piece, with the promise I will later revise it, better written, as my ability restores itself.
Here then, in alphabetical order, are the Best 10 Films I Saw in 2012:
• Arbitrage
• Argo
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• End of Watch
• Flight
• Life of Pi
• Lincoln
• Oslo, August 31
• The Sessions
• A Simple Life(Thanks to jlu)
Read Mr Ebert’s brief tributes to each film and more details of his mishap.
Grand Jury Prizes
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At many film festivals, the juries come up with a cockamamie category named the Grand Jury Prizes. It finds room for titles that were as good, in one way or another, than the others. Finding them a place in the numerical listing is a problem, because, really, what does such a ranking mean? Here are my 10 Grand Jury Prizes, again arranged in that frustrating order –alphabetically:
“Central Park Five”
“Impossible”
“In the Family”
“Last Ride”
“A Late Quartet”
“The Master”
“Paradise Lost 3”
“Rampart”
“Searching for Sugar Man”
“West of Memphis”
